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Flashlight Weapon Makes Target Throw Up
Fox News ^ | Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Posted on 08/07/2007 6:46:41 AM PDT by RhoTheta

It looks like a big flashlight — but it's really a nonlethal weapon designed to make you sick.

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., of Torrance, Calif., has been granted a contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop what it calls the "LED Incapacitator," according to a DHS online newsletter.

The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it's pointed at.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flashlight; nausea; nonlethal; vomiting; yesterday
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To: Hacklehead

“The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it’s pointed at.”

Until you close your eyes.

Ever try to riot with your eyes closed?

(chuckle)

Where can I git me one of these?


21 posted on 08/07/2007 7:17:38 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: RhoTheta

This reminds me of how TV is becoming. Shows are using fast edits to make them ‘look’ exiting - switching scenes twice a second. I end up changing channels due to nausea.


22 posted on 08/07/2007 7:20:46 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: shbox; Shyla; Clam Digger; absolootezer0

Puke ping!!


24 posted on 08/07/2007 7:37:01 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: RhoTheta

I’m suspicious that this thing won’t work as advertised.


25 posted on 08/07/2007 7:42:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz (JOIN THE NRA: https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp)
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To: nuke rocketeer

no cute puke puns?


26 posted on 08/07/2007 7:46:51 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (stop repeat offenders- don't re-elect them!)
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To: absolootezer0

Nope. All out today.


27 posted on 08/07/2007 7:55:14 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: RhoTheta
... it's really a nonlethal weapon ...

We are allowing 'gubmint' to come into possession of some pretty incredible items with the expectation that those items will only be used on the bad guys. I sure hope that pans out, way down the road.

28 posted on 08/07/2007 8:02:11 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid...even by congressional standards.)
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To: RhoTheta; xcamel; WKB

xcamel makes it his mission in life to alert people to duplicate posts.

Get a life xcamel.

xcamel, if you don't like duplicate threads, take it up with the mods. Why don't you do something more creative than complain at people? How about suggesting to the mods that they ping the entire active FR list to notify them of the proper procedure for posting threads? It'd be lots easier than checking out threads to find duplicates so's you can nag people about it.

Did it ever occur to you that you're also wasting bandwidth posting duplicate thread notifications, yourself.

29 posted on 08/07/2007 8:13:46 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: RhoTheta

I heard some time ago, that certain sound waves have the effect of making people need to relieve themselves. I understood that it was very effective in campus riots. This was a long time ago and I cannot recall where I heard that.

It would be pretty effective, even though messy. It’s awfully hard to resist nature when it calls.


30 posted on 08/07/2007 8:16:11 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Not a ping.


31 posted on 08/07/2007 8:16:52 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

To you, too.

Some people want to learn, others like you just want to b*tch.

32 posted on 08/07/2007 8:20:10 AM PDT by xcamel ("It's Talk Thompson Time!" >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
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To: RhoTheta
I haven't read the article yet, but my attention was caught by the phrase "rapidly changing wavelengths." My suspicion is that the thing is a strobe, and it's the frequency of the flashing that changes, not the frequency and wavelength of the light itself--i.e., the color. My hunch is that the journalist responsible for the article read the word "frequency" somewhere in his research, and thinks that "wavelength" and "frequency" are synonymous, or at least interchangeable, or at least indistinguishable. That's my theory, anyway. Now, I'll go read the article.
33 posted on 08/07/2007 8:20:33 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: meowmeow


I just put a patent in for this version.
34 posted on 08/07/2007 8:26:04 AM PDT by Ralph the Hun
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To: RhoTheta
These nonlethal devices are really neat.

My fav one is the laser that makes you feel like you on are fire.

Super high frequency, but attenuates VERY fast.

It is burning you, but only a faction of the top layer of skin, then dissipates.

Basically feels like you have really bad sunburn that was just SLAPPED.

Once the laser is taken away, the burning feeling goes away immediately.

35 posted on 08/07/2007 8:27:31 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon (Success is not final; Failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts -- Churchill)
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To: RhoTheta

Wow. It’s easy to imagine this device permanently installed in strategic locations around an airplane, making hijackings practically impossible. It’s easy to imagine it in the hands of the Rapist’s wife, too, once she gets back into the White House.


36 posted on 08/07/2007 8:30:43 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: RhoTheta
Turns out the wavelengths do change.
37 posted on 08/07/2007 8:31:25 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: xcamel
...others like you just want to b*tch.

And your complaining to others about duplicate threadds is called what?

38 posted on 08/07/2007 8:44:19 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: absolootezer0
no cute puke puns?

Dude...
39 posted on 08/07/2007 8:46:16 AM PDT by shbox
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To: metmom
Is that you, Kaslin ???
40 posted on 08/07/2007 8:47:28 AM PDT by xcamel ("It's Talk Thompson Time!" >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
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